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Music Recomposed: Remarks on the History of the Same
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 25–36.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Lawrence Kramer Stanley Cavell's 1967 essay “Music Discomposed” claims that twentieth-century musical modernism incorporates the constant possibility of “fraudulence,” thus provoking the Philistine objection: why can't we write like Mozart any more? For Cavell the question is preeminently a matter...
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Rameau’s Changing Views on Supposition and Suspension
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (2): 121–167.
Published: 01 October 2012
... a more detailed and more nuanced account of supposition than has thus far been available by attending not only to Rameau’s own writings but also to the writings of his early critics and to the musical repertories that were these writers’ frame of reference. Nathan John Martin holds a Social...
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Liquidation and Its Origins
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Áine Heneghan Liquidation is an idiosyncratic term in music theory. This article considers its origins in the writings and teaching of Arnold Schoenberg. Tracing its history uncovers the resonances that it held for him and refines our understanding of the term. Paying close attention...
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Lyric Forms as “Performed” Speech in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre : A Study of Operatic Convention in Wagnerian Music Drama
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 287–323.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Craig Duke Abstract There is growing recognition that Richard Wagner's mature works—the music dramas—owed much to earlier nineteenth-century opera. In the often-contentious area of Wagnerian form, analysts have tended to draw more on Wagner's writings and the Formenlehre tradition than on operatic...
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From Ramos to Rameau: Toward the Origins of the Modern Concept of Harmony
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 1–42.
Published: 01 April 2022
... properties of harmony, newly understood as a specifically polyphonic phenomenon, first emerged into theoretical discourse in polemical writings of the Northern Italian theorists Nicolò Burzio (1487), Giovanni Spataro (1491), and Franchino Gaffurio (1496, 1518), sparked by the inflammatory views of Bartolomeo...
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Topic Theory in Soviet Musicology
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Daniil Zavlunov Abstract Anglophone topic theory scholarship evinces only peripheral awareness of rich traditions of topical analysis that have existed outside its linguistic sphere. Many of the elements defining Anglophone topic theory today were present in the writings of Soviet musicologists...
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Music in Dialogue: Conversational, Literary, and Didactic Discourse about Music in the Renaissance
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 41–74.
Published: 01 April 2008
... and musical writings have barely figured in the study of the Renaissance dialogue, yet these works offer specific insights about the nature of the genre. In addition to Morley's treatise, works discussed in detail include Anton Francesco Doni's Dialogo della musica (1544), Gioseffo Zarlino's Dimostrationi...
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 167–220.
Published: 01 October 2011
... distant orbit are the aforementioned authors whose writings chronicle the fortunes of formalism in the 1800s. Lee Rothfarb is professor of music theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include Ernst Kurth as Theorist and Analyst (SMT’s 1989 Outstanding Publication...
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Helmholtz, Music Theory, and Liberal-Progressive History
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 283–310.
Published: 01 October 2010
... principles. Such principles would include the very parameters of modern tonality, so the status of tonal “affinity,” a seemingly given and predictable attribute of musical tones, coexists uneasily in Helmholtz's writing with a humanist appreciation for the unpredictability of cultural choice and change...
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Stanley Cavell on Modern Music: “Music Discomposed” and “A Matter of Meaning It” After Forty Years
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 37–60.
Published: 01 April 2010
... concerns and to criticize formalist theories of artistic interpretation, such as that of Wimsatt and Beardsley. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of an effort on Cavell's part to engage this music with the same seriousness that is evident in his writings on modernist authors and visual artists...
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Philosophy Recomposed: Stanley Cavell and the Critique of New Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Amy Bauer Stanley Cavell's 1965 article “Music Discomposed” argues that modernist works have become codependent on the philosophical justification surrounding their production and consumption. The writings and compositions of two contemporary composers, György Ligeti and Helmut Lachenmann, echo...
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Cavell and Deleuze
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 April 2010
... a fraudulent or insincere musical effort. Through recourse to Cavell and Deleuze's writings on music as well as their respective philosophies of language, I demonstrate how Cavell's position stands in clear methodological disagreement to the broadly inhuman and metaphysical orientation espoused by Deleuze...
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Leonhard Euler’s Unfinished Theory of Rhythm
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 245–286.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Roger Mathew Grant The music-theoretical formulations of the early modern mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-83) are customarily remembered—and often dismissed—for their unconventional rankings of the consonances. A closer examination of Euler’s writings, however, reveals that he intended his...
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Action and Agency Revisited
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 321–371.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Seth Monahan For centuries, metaphors of agency have pervaded music-analytical writing. Today, as in generations past, critics routinely vivify their analytical narrations by ascribing sentience, emotion, and volition to musical works, their internal elements (pitch classes, contrapuntal voices...
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Characteristic Tonality in the Balletti of Gastoldi, Morley, and Hassler
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 235–271.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Megan Kaes Long In 1595 Thomas Morley published The First Booke of Balletts , a collection of “Italian madrigals Englished.” Rather than writing English words for unaltered Italian works as his predecessors had done, Morley created original compositions loosely modeled on Italian works. Analysis...
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Mersenne and the Art of Delivery
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 April 2015
...André Redwood This article seeks to broaden our conventional historical account of the intersection between music and rhetoric by examining that intersection in the music-theoretical writings of Marin Mersenne (1588–1648). Mersenne’s discussion of rhetoric, found chiefly in his Harmonie universelle...
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“As Forming Becomes Form”: Listening, Analogizing, and Analysis in Kurth's Bruckner and Musikpsychologie
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Daphne Tan Ernst Kurth's writings on musical form, while celebrated by many scholars, have been subject to differing interpretations and outright dismissal. Bruckner (1925), his best-known exposition on form, is daunting in scope and idiosyncratic in tone. A more sizable challenge, however...
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Downward Arpeggiations: Prolongational Issues and Their Expressive Implications
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Diego Cubero The concept of prolongation in Schenkerian analysis broadly describes the elaboration of a vertical sonority. Among the most basic ways to prolong a chord is by arpeggiating it, such that it governs the time span of its arpeggiation. In Heinrich Schenker's writings, however...
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Early Modern Tuning, Temperament, and the Natural Philosophy of Empire
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (2): 315–356.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Andrew J. Chung Abstract This article examines early modern interactions between music-theoretical writings on tuning and consonance, natural philosophy (systematic, scientific understanding of the natural world), and the colonization of the American tropics. Part 1 argues that early modern music...
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The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 433–449.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Joseph Salem Joseph Salem is completing a Ph.D. on Pierre Boulez at Yale University. His research investigates the creative process through the analysis of musical manuscripts and contemporaneous writings, as well as the influence of musical form, media, and social function...
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